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...winner, F. Murray Abraham, as Bernardo Gui, a Spanish Inquisitor and William's nemesis. And while the cavernous abbey has none of the ornate, Florentine architecture we associate with religious structures, it's the perfect canvas for the Gothic faces who dwell there--monks with hunchbacks, bloated tumors, anemic skin and smudged features. No detail was spared on casting the extras...
Before he began writing plays, Tolins directed and acted in several campus plays during the past two years, and he plans to keep up those roles as he expands his other activities. In late October, he will direct The Skin of our Teeth, a "bizarre American classic" which Tolins updated slightly to make it less confusing for the audience. Tolins calls himself a "conservative director" and says he was surprised that he was given this potentially avant-garde play to direct. The play, he says, "has a load of thoughts on morality, family, war and love that are worth...
Some viruses consist of a segment of double-stranded DNA surrounded by a protein skin. When they invade a cell, the DNA takes over the cell's genetic machinery and orders it to produce copies of the virus, which escape to infect other cells. The victim cell is often killed in the process. But the AIDS virus is a so-called retrovirus and contains single-stranded RNA. Alone, RNA lacks the ability to conquer cells, but retroviruses carry an enzyme called reverse transcriptase. When the AIDS virus invades an immune-system T cell, the enzyme enables the viral...
University Health Services Director Warren E. C. Wacker gives these establishments his nod of approval. In fact, UHS uses a similar device to to treat some skin disorders. "If it's certified equipment, and the people there know how to use it--and you don't get exposed to too many of the lower-wavelength, cancer-causing rays--I think its fine," he says...
...course, some people who are fair-skinned are particularly prone to developing skin cancer. To be safe you would want to put on a low number sun-block in case the machine leaks a little and you get exposed to the lower-wavelength rays...